Should I disavow without a manual penalty?
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Hi all!
I currently had someone remove about 70 bad backlinks pointing to our site. Is it worth disavowing the rest? We don't have any manual penalty or anything like that, but is it the sort of thing to use as a precautionary measure only? There are about 100 links in the disavow file that I had built.
Thank you!
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If you know they are bad, I would recommend diavowing them. You never know when or if you'll get a warning. I would err on the side of caution and go ahead and disavow. There is nothing saying you have to, but it makes the most sense to me.
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This is something we have been wondering as well. We were wondering if some of our backlinks were hurting us because our ranking went down. We decided we were going to try it out, but continue trying to get good, solid links. If I find out anything else, I'll let you know, but please do the same!
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